Time: Wednesday, October 16, 2024. 8:30 AM-9:45 AM EDT (UTC-4)
Location: TradeWinds Island Grand Resort, St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA
Contact: xinhuan.shu@newcastle.ac.uk | yifang.wang@kellogg.northwestern.edu | tangjunxiu@zju.edu.cn
Visualization art projects have flourished over the last decades. They make the artistic use of data and visualization to "embody a forceful point of view", "with the intent of making art." The visualization community has actively embraced the trend, from the early trials of Art Exhibition/Show to nowadays the biggest associated event in the main VIS conference, the VIS Arts Program. Hundreds of innovative and creative visualization art projects have been exhibited, attracting submissions from artists, designers, and practitioners who are not regular VIS conference participants.
On the other side, visualization art projects present obvious differences from mainstream visualization research in terms of author teams, targeted audiences, topics, designs, authoring tools, etc. At VISAP's 12th anniversary, it is worth looking into what these artistic explorations bring to the community.
The key theme of this panel is to discuss the relations between visualization art projects and visualization research. An initial set of topics is proposed to spark the discussion, including the role of data, the use of visual encoding, perception, authoring tools, and the impacts of visualization art projects to the community.
Pedro Cruz
Northeastern University
Angus Forbes
Purdue University
Samuel Huron
Télécom Paris at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Rewa Wright
Queensland University of Technology
Rebecca Xu
Syracuse University
Weidi Zhang
Arizona State University
Xinhuan Shu
Newcastle University
Yifang Wang
Northwestern University
Junxiu Tang
Zhejiang University